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<h3 class="post-title">Groovy Goodness: Remove Parts of a String</h3>

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<p>Groovy has added the <code>minus()</code> method to the String class. And because the <code>minus()</code> method is used by the <code>-</code> operator we can remove parts of a String with this operator. The argument can be a String or a regular expression Pattern. The first occurrence of the String or Pattern is then removed from the original String.</p>
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​def s = 'Groovy and Strings are fun and versatile.'

assert 'Groovy and Strings are fun' == s - ' and versatile.'
assert 'Groovy and Strings are fun.' == s.minus(" and versatile")
assert 'Groovy  Strings are fun and versatile.' == s - ~/\b\w{3}\b/
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